Sipora B. Weissman, LCSW

09/02/2026

A new UCLA study found that childhood adversity, such as abuse and neglect, can alter how mitochondria produce energy, with potentially lifelong effects on physical and mental health.

Read the full story here: https://ucla.in/3Qzbhup

09/02/2026

08/23/2026

I’m hiring an associate therapist at my practice in Ventura California! This is a hybrid position. If you fit the bill or know of anyone who might be interested, please share this post!

https://siporaweissman.com/job-openings/

08/22/2026

I'm Hiring! Associate Therapist Position in Ventura, California!

Current job openings at Ventura psychotherapy practice specializing in chronic pain/ illness, complex trauma, highly sensitive people.

08/14/2026

Excited to announce- Coherence Therapy for Chronic Pain & Mind-Body Syndromes training!
Learn about how schemas (beliefs, mental models) push the buttons of the nervous system keeping people sick or in pain. This is open to all healing professionals.
Friday, Sept 18th at 11amPST/2pmEST.
Runs 2.5 hours
Live on Zoom but recording will be sent out for people that can’t make it live.
Sign up link in bio!!!

08/13/2026

Misophonia is complex to treat. As a therapist I’m tired of seeing advertisements about being free from your miso in just two magical sessions. There are so many factors that can be at play, that’s why I don’t believe there is a one size fits all to healing. A provider that can pull back and look at a persons history, their nervous system, what’s going on in their subconscious mind is what I believe helps people with miso. Not easy though! I’ll add this is my view on miso and others might not agree.

Have you had therapy or coaching for miso? Share what helped and what didn’t!

08/10/2026

None of this means that C.B.T. therapy as practiced by good clinicians is less effective than psychodynamic therapy. What it does mean is that we live in a fun-house therapy world where the term “evidence-based practice” is still widely used to imply the superiority of treatments for which the evidence is poor.

4. How Neuroscience Can Help
Predictive processing is a vast field that draws on more than a century of philosophy, cognitive science and empirical research into neuroanatomy and electrophysiology. My own understanding of it comes largely from conversations with Mark Solms, a professor of neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and author of “The Only Cure (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Only-Cure/Mark-Solms/9798897101443): Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing.”

It helps to begin with our shared confidence that our eyes and ears merely show us what is going on in the world. This confidence, it turns out, is based on an illusion. The truth goes more like this: Our brains maintain an internal generative model of the world and use it, in every instant of life, to predict the imminent future as the future becomes the present. Importantly, though, we do not experience these predictions as predictions. We experience them as reality.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/opinion/therapy-neuroscience-perception.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The good news is that the neuroscience of perception can pave the way out.